Wagon-wheel lock.



D. GODO.

WAGON WHEEL LOCK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24. 1915.

1 ,176,4:42. Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

n15 COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH .CO, WASHINGTON, D. c.

is to provide a wagon. wheel look which is posed a piston-like head 19, that is carried rinrrnn snares rarnnr enrich.

WAGULFWHEEL LOCK. 1,1 76,442. K Sp cification of Letters Patent? Patented BT31. 21, 1915.

Application filed Novernber 24, 1915. Serial No. 63,300.

To all Quiz-m it may concern: .vation, 1 artly in section, of the lock and the Be it known that 1,. DAVID .Gooo, a sub- 7 parts coacting therewith; Fig. 4 is a bottom ject of the King of Hungary, and a resident p an view of the detail shown in Fig. 3; and of the city of New York, in the county of Fig. 5 is a section taken through a portion New York and State of New York, have of one of the locking bolts on a larger scale. invented certain new and useful Improv@ 7 In the drawings, the invention is shown ments in lVago-n-lVheelLocks, of which the applied toa farm wagon for purposes of following is a specification. illustration, attention, however, is called to e present invention relates to an atthe fact that it can be used in connection tachnient for vehicles, such as wagons, etc. with other vehicles just as well. It relates more particularly to a lock for the Referring to the drawings, the numeral wheels thereof, which, when applied, pre- 10 indicates the rear portion of a wagon vents a rotation of the wheels, or in other body, and the numerals 11 the .rear wheels words motion of the vehicle. Devices of thereof. 'These wheels arenqounted upon this type are particularly useful in .conthe rear axle 12, the latter being connected nection with delivery wagons or similar vewith the body by means of springs 13. hicles, which are left frequently unattended The wheel lock comprises two bolts 1%, by the driver. The driver, before leaving, each of which is made of two sections, to applies the lock, and thereby prevents a runwit: l5. and16. The section 15 of each bolt away or accidental movement of the vehicle. is provided with an enlar ement 17 having 1e main ob ect of the present invention a. cylindrical bore i8,in which is slidably dis tion, and which can be manufactured on a venta disengagement of these two sections commercial scale, or in other words one of a bolt, there is fixedly attached, in rear which is not so diflicult to pij'oduc as to be of the piston-like head 19, a stop 20 to the beyond the reasonable cost of such aconcylindrical enlargement 17. In each bore trivance. j p 18 is disposed a spring 21, tending to force Another object of the invention is to 0on the sections 15 and 16 of a locking bolt in struct a lock of the type describedwhich can opposite directions, for a purpose hereinbe easily and conveniently attached to all aftertobe described. types of vehicles; The locking bolts are slidably arranged in lVith these and other objects in view, guides'22, which are carriedby a base frame which will more fully appear as the nature 23, the latter being secured to the bottom of the invention is better understood, .the v of the wagon body in parallel relation to the gerear axle 12, or in other words transversely. 0 ment and construction of parts hereinafter From the base plate 23 depends, preferably, fully described, pointed out in the appended in the longitudinal axis of the wagon bod claims and il=lustrated in t e accompanying a hanger bearing'24, in which is rotatably drawings, it being understood that many journaled a spindle 25, to the latter bein changes may be made in the size and profixedly attached a lever 26. The spindle 25 portion of the several parts and details of is'disposedparallel to the longitudinal axis construction within the scope of the ap of the wagon body. To one end of the lever pended claims without departing from the 26 is pivoted at 27 a link 8, the other end spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of said link being pivoted at 9 to the section of the invention. 16 of one of the locking bolts. The other 10 ne of the many possible embodiments end of the lever is connected in a similar of the invention is illustrated in the accommanner by a link 30 with the section 16 of panying drawings, in which the other locking bolt.

'igure 1 is a side elevation of the rear The locking bolts are operated by an actuportion of a vehicle provided with a wheel ating bar 31, which is slidably arranged in lock, constructed in accordance with the guides 32, carried by the base plate 23. T his present invention; Fig. 2 is a section taken actuating bar is provided at its inner end on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,- Fig. 3 is a front elewith a pin 33, that isseated in a slot 34 in simple in construction,efficient inoperaby the correspondingsection 16. To prea lever 35,

row shown in of the drawings,

, sons: If, in projecting 'ing bolt is put under tensi necessary to shift the actuating bar 81 The outer end ofthe bar is provided with an eye 36, to be graspe by the hand of the operator. The bar 81 extends, preferably, in parallel relation to the locking bolts from the longitudinal center to the Spindle .25.

the same. a

The operation of this device is as follows: Normally the parts are in the positions shown in Figs. 2 and3 of the drawings, in which the locking bolts are in their retracte positions, or in other words disengaged from the rear wheels. If it is intended to lock the wheels against rotation; the actuating bar 31 is shifted in the direction of the ar Fig. 3 of the drawings, whereby, the said locking bolts move in opposite directions and are projected into thepath of the spokes, as clearly shown in Fig. 5 thereby locking thewheels The locking bolts are for the following reathe locking bolts, the outer ends of one or of the other ofthe same does not come into registering position'with a spacebetween two spokes of a wheel, but is forced againstone of the spokes thereof,

against movement. made of two sections the movement of the section 16 of the locking bolt will be completed, but the corre sponding section cannot'move through its full stroke. If this'should be the'case, the respective spring 21 is compressed, or in other words the section'15 of he said lockn. If now the wheels move acc dentally, the section 15 of the locking bolt will be shot into the space between two spokes of the wheel by the said spring as soon as it is disengaged spoke, against which it abuts in the manner from the described.

a In order to unlock the wheel, it is simply in Copies of this patent may be 'obtained for the latter being rigidly fastened line of the wagon body to one of the sides of of said lever,

2. The combination with a one of its axles and the wheels mounted five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

the direction opposite to that indicated by the arrow shown in Fig. f the drawings;

hat I claim is 1.7 The combination one of its axles and the wheels mounted thereon, of two locking bolts slidably mounted upon said body in parallel relation to said axle, each of said boltsbeing sections, a spring inserted between the'twe sections of each bolt, a lever terniediate'its' ends to said'body, links con necting said locking bolts with the ends whereby upon shifting of said with a wagon body, I

made 0 two 7 fulcrumed in- 7 leversaid locking'bolts are caused to move in opposite directions, and connected with said lever, normally disengaged from said wheels and adapted to be projected between the spokes thereof upon shifting said bar.

thereon, of two locking bolts slidably mounted upon said body in parallel relation to said axle, each of said locking boltsibeing rted bemade of two sections, a spring inse tween the two sections of each bolt, alever fulcrumed intermediate its ends to SfllCl the inner sections of said body, links connecting bolts with the ends .of said lever,

whereby an actuating bar said bolts'being wagon body, 7

upon shifting of-said lever the nner sections a of said bolts are caused to move directions, the spring cooperating with each bolt forcing upon moving its inner-section the outer section associated therewith in the same direction, and an actuating in opposite i bar ccnnected with'said lever,-said bolts being norinally 'disengaged from said wheels an adapted to be projected between the spokes thereof upon shifting said bar.

Signed at New New York, and State: of New AJDJ1915'.

19th day of Nov.,

- DAVID GODO. 7

York, in the county of York this Commissioner of Patents, 

